Martin Wilner: Making History. The Case Histories 2014
Hales Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of pen, ink, and graphite works on paper by Martin Wilner. This is his second one-person exhibition with the gallery. Wilner is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. A unifying theme in both of his professional realms is the use of observation颅鈥搃n art, for the creation of his work, and in clinical practice, as a means to facilitate dynamic change and conflict resolution in individuals seeking consultation.
"Making History" is a time-based project initiated in January of 2002 that utilises the convention of the Roman calendar to telegraph the notion of the passage of time over the course of each month. Wilner selects a daily subject of interest to him from a variety of media sources and visualises them each day as a drawing that would coalesce into a completed work by the end of each month. Elements of cartoon, cartography, text, micrography, and music have evolved into essential aspects of his creative vocabulary. On the verso of each drawing are descriptive texts or images that are integral to the work.
Upon completion of a decade of this project in 2012, Wilner elected to push the creative envelope of this parameter-based body of work by inviting individuals familiar with his work to correspond with him daily for a month-long period and send him messages describing what they found of compelling interest to them on each day of their assigned month. He would then visualise each correspondence daily to produce the composite work by month's end.
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Hales Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of pen, ink, and graphite works on paper by Martin Wilner. This is his second one-person exhibition with the gallery. Wilner is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. A unifying theme in both of his professional realms is the use of observation颅鈥搃n art, for the creation of his work, and in clinical practice, as a means to facilitate dynamic change and conflict resolution in individuals seeking consultation.
"Making History" is a time-based project initiated in January of 2002 that utilises the convention of the Roman calendar to telegraph the notion of the passage of time over the course of each month. Wilner selects a daily subject of interest to him from a variety of media sources and visualises them each day as a drawing that would coalesce into a completed work by the end of each month. Elements of cartoon, cartography, text, micrography, and music have evolved into essential aspects of his creative vocabulary. On the verso of each drawing are descriptive texts or images that are integral to the work.
Upon completion of a decade of this project in 2012, Wilner elected to push the creative envelope of this parameter-based body of work by inviting individuals familiar with his work to correspond with him daily for a month-long period and send him messages describing what they found of compelling interest to them on each day of their assigned month. He would then visualise each correspondence daily to produce the composite work by month's end.
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